highlight marker THIS SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENT IS SUSPENDED... AFTER BRINGING A PICTURE OF A BOMB HE DREW TO SCHOOL... TONIGHT THAT STUDENT'S MOTHER CALLS HER SON'S PUNISHMENT "LUDICROUS"... AND SHE'S CALLING ON AN UPSTATE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO RE-EVALUATE ITS POLICY ON WHAT'S PERCEIVED AS A THREAT. NEWS 4'S MANDY GAITHER JOINS US NOW... MANDY...HOW DID THIS WHOLE THING HAPPEN? RHETT PARHAM DREW THE PICTURE AT HOME...BROUGHT IT TO SCHOOL...AND SHOWED IT TO SOME OLDER CLASSMATES WHO THEN REPORTED THE DRAWING TO SCHOOL OFFICIALS. here it is right here. Game play full screen right here LIKE MOST 13-YEAR-OLDS...RHETT PARHAM LOVES VIDEO GAMES... ONE OF HIS FAVORITES IS BOMBERMAN... HE WATCHES VIDEOS OF THE NINTENDO GAME ON HIS HOME COMPUTER. this picture of a bomb and it explodes things IT'S THAT PICTURE THIS AUTISTIC TEEN DREW OF A BOMB FROM THE GAME... THAT HAS HIM HOME...ON A SCHOOL DAY. SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. you've gotten in trouble because of that picture, huh? Yes at school. What do you think about that? They think they're bad. What do you think? I think they don't want to say and show a picture of a bomb at school. No way RHETT'S MOM...AMY...SAYS SHE UNDERSTANDS SCHOOL SAFETY IS IMPORTANT...AND ON THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYONE'S MINDS... BUT SHE SAYS HILLCREST MIDDLE SCHOOL OFFICIALS HAVE GONE TOO FAR. people know that he has autism he has an official diagnosis they know that he communicates differently it's obvious when you communicate with him that he doesn't speak the same way and communicate and speak the same way as typical children so he still to this day doesn't realize, I don't think, the brevity of the situation THIS MOTHER HOPES THE DISTRICT WILL RE-EVALUATE ITS POLICY ON WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS A THREAT... it's a bomb. Picture bomb SHE PLANS TO MEET WITH SCHOOL OFFICIALS ON WEDNESDAY. IN A STATEMENT...GREENVILLE SCHOOLS SPOKESMAN OBY LYLES SAID IN PART...QUOTE.... "THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT JUDGMENTS A SCHOOL OFFICIAL MUST MAKE. THIS INVESTIGATION BEGAN WHEN THREATENING COMMENTS WERE MADE, RESULTING IN THE RESPONSIBLE REMOVAL OF THE STUDENT FROM THE SCHOOL TO ENSURE EVERYONE'S SAFETY WHILE THE INCIDENT AND INTENT WERE ASSESSED. THE SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION RESPONDED APPROPRIATELY TO THE SEVERITY OF THIS INCIDENT.... " MANDY GAITHER WYFF NEWS 4 LIVE IN THE GREENVILLE NEWSROOM.

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